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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: System on April 27, 2005, 12:03:08 PM
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Amiga, Inc. announced it has become a Premier Member of the Hewlett-Packard iPAQ Developer Program.
As a Premier Member, Amiga gains access to development tools, source code, pre-release tools and information and multiple opportunities for joint marketing and collaboration at tradeshows.
Original URL : Click Here (http://www.amiga.com/news/index.php?art=10)
As a Premier Member, Amiga gains access to development tools, source code, pre-release tools and information and multiple opportunities for joint marketing and collaboration at tradeshows.
"We are pleased to welcome Amiga as a Premier member of the iPAQ Developer Program," said Joel Vincent, Product Manager, Handhelds Global Business Unit.
The Hewlett-Packard program comprises more than 15,000 members from 109 countries, including 121 universities worldwide. While the US still constitutes the largest block of members, a majority of members are from outside of the United States.
The original purpose of the program was to serve those developing iPAQ expansion sleeves. The widespread adoption of SDIO (Secure Digital Input Output) and CF (Compact Flash) has shifted the program's main focus now to providing developers with finer control over unique features of the hardware, especially new features that do not yet have standard operating system support.
"The breadth of iPAQ devices enable the consumer/home and business/mobile users with extensive applications geared to their respective needs," said Greg Sigel, Amiga's vice president of sales and marketing. "The specific focus of each device, covering multimedia, imaging, productivity and business applications mirrors the development path that Amiga is pursuing with our developer community. By gaining access to the HP tools, Amiga developers can more effectively serve each market with the optimal set of graphically rich, superior performing applications."
After having recently launched its revised web site, on-line store and a host of new titles, Amiga continues to pursue an aggressive distribution strategy and product release plan of 12 new titles per quarter. The HP-Amiga partnership is a key step to enabling handheld users with premium content.
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platform and interactive devices. AmigaAnywhere™ enables applications to run on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, x86, and Hitachi SH series and to run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Windows CE .NET, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. AmigaAnywhere™ applications are available online at www.shopamiga.com. For more information visit www.amiga.com.
AmigaAnywhere™ is a registered trademark of Amiga, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
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Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies.
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Whooptie freakin do. Amiga signs up for a free membership to hp's ipaq developer program. Hell, i could do that as well.
http://h71018.www7.hp.com/hp_ids/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fhp_ids%2findex.aspx
Amiga corp is really showing some progress :lol:
damn, i just lol'ed in my pants...
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I didn't want to say that, but I was thinking it.
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Is this RISC developer program similar to Hombre / PA-RISC?
http://amiga.emugaming.com/haynie3drisc.html
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Does this agreement related to attempt to bundle HP peripherals (scanner, printer, camera, DVD writer etc) with AmigaOne or Micro-A1?
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Is Amiga Development LLC related to this Developer program?
Why Amiga Development LLC sue HP?
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http://investor.hp.com/EdgarDetail.cfm?CIK=47217&FID=1047469-05-6240&SID=05-00
Also on July 2, 2004, Amiga Development LLC ("Amiga"), an entity affiliated with Gateway, filed a lawsuit against HP in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of three patents relating to computer monitoring, imaging and decoder technologies.
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@mdma
:lol:
Actually, I hope they do well this time.
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redfox
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Is this news? Amiga Inc. have bought an off the shelf developer package... if they want to develop for iPAQs you'd expect them to have done this a long time ago.
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This all sounds very familiar.
Sharp Zaurus anyone!
In order to shine some light on the situation. Does anyone know what the point of this is? Why is it news? Does it have any baring on future products or planned products?
I'm grasping at straws but what the hell!
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Just to pick this apart more;
For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world.
WTF? Do all the studio execs like playing video slots on their PDAs?
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>> For almost two decades its award-winning software
>> has been a mainstay for motion picture studios,
>> multimedia creators, and digital entertainment
>> enthusiasts around the world.
> WTF? Do all the studio execs like playing video
> slots on their PDAs?
That whole paragraph is simply an embarrassment. Amiga Inc has no software which is used in any motion picture studios, unless they're counting AmigaOS 3.1 on a Video Toaster (which is wholly a product of Newtek). AmigaOS has won absolutely zero awards that I can remember.
Why must Amiga Inc keep trying to marketeer itself into looking stupid?
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Well, the interesting part here is that I heard this a few weeks ago from my dad's ex-boss.
Altho, if they could get, say, OS4 onto the iPaq, I'd probably buy it.
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Poster: Wayne Posted: 2005/4/28 13:30:02
Why must Amiga Inc keep trying to marketeer itself into looking stupid?
Probably because AI still has the same idiot(s) working for it as it did five years ago who making these new decisions?
Dammy
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Well, the interesting part here is that I heard this a few weeks ago from my dad's ex-boss
And you didn't think it was news worthy? :-o :-? ;-)
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For the record, I posted it here simply because it was posted to their Web site. I make no claims as to the validity of the news. It sounds very much to me like how another company that we all know and loathe, erm, love always claims all these "partnerships" with companies who have no idea who the hell they are.
Five years and absolutely nothing has changed.
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It sounds very much to me like how another company that we all know and loathe, erm, love always claims all these "partnerships" with companies who have no idea who the hell they are.
Well, it was big enough news to HP that it didn't even make the @HP internal intranet news section. I know... I looked for it. ;-)
There was a grand total of 3 documents on the entire intranet that did mention AmigaAnywhere, though.
(And, of course, these comments do not reflect on the thoughts or official positions of any entity other than myself. I'm not a spokesman for any company that I may be employed by or a contractor for. Blah blah, yakketty schmacketty.)
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Wayne and Dammy are right. This was a questionable approach 5 years ago. It's even more questionable now.
Hare shows that he doesn't understand the Amiga by following the perceptions and advice of you-know-who. OK, I'll mention them. Bill & Fleecy.
Where are Joe Torre and Hedley Davis when we need them!?
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It is an embarassment. I don't fault anyone for covering this 'story' because this is an Amiga website, and that was an announcement on Amiga, Inc.'s website.
But, because we do discuss it, its not just an embarassment to Amiga, Inc. but an embarassment to us as well.
I won't try to pick it apart further, the points made already are perfectly valid....but I've almsot come to understand the Amiga fanboy position. Over time it's become obvious we need Amiga, Inc. to succeed. Without that, all we have left, is embarassing discussions like this, and ever distant memories of a bygone era.
On the other hand, who can be a fanboy of such a joke team, as Amiga, Inc.
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What, newsworthy that my dad's ex-boss dropped me an IM going "You won't believe who just had their paperwork cross my screen!"